Pocket cigarette-former



` (No Model.)

J. VEITI-l.

POCKET SIGARETTE FORMER.

No. 603,714. Patented May 10,1898.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @Erica JACOB VEITH, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

POCKET ClGARETTE-FORMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,714, dated May 10,189B.

Application filed March 16, 1897. Serial No. 627,822. [No model.)

To @ZZ 11171/0711/ t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB VEITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas,have invented a new and useful Pocket Cigarette-Former, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to cigarette-forming devices adapted to be carriedin the pocket and to be manipulated to form a cigarette when desired bythe consumer, the object in view being to provide a former of the classnamed whereby long-cut, fine plug-cut, or what is known in the tobaccotrade as finecut (in contradistinction to granulated or short-cut)tobacco may be manipulated in the formation of cigarettes, thedisadvantage incident to the use of granulated or shortcuttobacco beingthat it cannot be interleafed, and hence the ends of the cigarette paperor wrapper must be twisted or pasted in order to prevent tobacco fromescaping. The above-mentionediine-cut or regular cigarette tobacco isnot adapted for use in connection with those forms of pocketcigaretteformers heretofore in use for the reason that no means haveheretofore been devised for introducing the tobacco evenly and withfacility into the end of a tube upon which the cigarette-wrapper hasbeen previously arranged, and it is the object of my invention to soconstruct the former that tobacco of the class named may be fed into thetube with the same facility as tobacco of other kinds, and, therefore,whereby the disadvantages incident to the use of short tobacco may beavoided.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette-formerconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a centralsectional view of the same, showing the packerin operative position.Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the displacer in operative position.packer and displacer'arranged in the tube for transportation. Fig. 5 isa detail view of the barbed or operative end of the packer.

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the Similar numerals of referenceindicate correspondingparts in all the iigu res of the drawings.

l designates a tube forming the body portion of the former, said tubeterminating at one end in a funnel or hopper 2, the tobacco which is tobe used in the construction of the cigarette Vbeing introduced intothe-hopper after a wrapper, as a cigarette-paper or a tobacco-leaf, hasbeen arranged eXteriorly upon the tube.

The hopper is provided in one side with a channel 3, extending from theupper edge to the point of junction with the tube, said channel beingadapted for the reception of the packing-rod 4, which is provided with atransversely-spread or bifurcated or barbed operating extremity, (shownat 5.) After the tobacco has been arranged in the hopper the operativeend ofthe packeris inserted into the channel and reciprocated to catchthe ber at a point contiguous to the upper end of the tube and graduallywork it into the tube from a point contiguous to the bottom of thehopper. It will be seen that no pressure is applied to the portion ofthe tobacco in the upper part of the hopper. The feeding of the tobaccois accomplished wholly from a point near the bottom of the hopper or atthe upper end of the tube.

After the tube has been properly filled with tobacco the wrapper isslipped a'short distance from the tube-say about one-fourth of itslength-when the displacer 6 is introduced through the hopper into theupper end of the tube and pressure is applied to the tobacco within thetube to discharge it therefrom, the discharge of the tobacco beingaccompanied by the complete removal of the wrapper from the tube and thecompletion of the cigarette. The extremity of the packer is providedwith a flattened head 7, corresponding approximately in diameter withthe interior of the tube.

The upper or handle portions of both the packer and the displacer arelooped to form IOO dles in the hopper and in the contiguous upper end ofthe tube, in which condition the device may be carried readily in thevestpocket.

By employing a Wrapper of tobacco-leaf an all-tobacco cigarette maybeformed by the device hereinbefore described, it being obvious that thesize of the tube upon which the wrapper is rolled may be varied to suitthe desired size of the product.

It will be understood that in practice various changes in the forni,proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted towithout departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- A cigarette-formerhaving a tube terminating at one end in a communicating axiallyalinedhopper, of which the wall is outwardly bulged or offset to form a narrowchannel 3 extending from the outer edge of the hopper to andcommunicating with the contiguous end of the tube and constituting aseat or guide for a packing-tool, whereby the tool operates exteriorlyof the interior contour of the hopper, and projects terminally into theupper end of the tube, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB VEITH.

Witnesses:

Jos. GoTTEsBUREN, CHRISTIAN ADLER.

